Field Center Blog

All Family Separations Are Not The Same: Reflections On The Border Crisis

October 5, 2018

By Richard J. Gelles, Ph.D., Managing Faculty Director: The United States government policy of separating undocumented children from their parents at the southern border was, and remains, both egregious and a form of government child maltreatment. Thousands of children were separated at the onset of the Department of Justice’s new ”zero tolerance” policy. Weeks after. . .